The appeal of proposed actions to sever service connection for multiple scars, status post excision of skin cancer, and to reduce the assigned disability rating from 100 percent to 30 precent for multiple basal cell carcinomas was dismissed. The appeal of issues for initial higher ratings for hypertension, PTSD, gastroesophageal reflux disorder with diverticulitis, and anemia, and issues for service connection for Parkinson's like symptoms, peripheral neuropathy in the lower and upper extremities, and low back disability were also dismissed.
The deciding factor: The August 2024 and October 2024 rating decisions were only non-final proposed severance and proposed rating reduction and deferred determinations, and they were not appealable decisions as to those matters. The November 2024 VA Form 10182 was received more than one year from the date of mailing of each letter of notification of the August 2021, February 2022, March 2022, and May 2023 rating decisions.
- Claimed conditions
- Multiple scars, status post excision of skin cancer, Scar on left shoulder, Scars on left and right scapula, Scars on upper chest and medial breast, Heart disability, to include paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, Lung disability, to include granulomatous disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25031436
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Decisions by this judge: 1,902 · Granted: 11% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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